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About this course

In your job in the Police, you can experience more trauma than most people. Most people experience trauma in the form of loss, bereavement or illness. However, the particular nature of your work means that you are more likely to experience a range of potentially traumatic situations.

These might be in the form of a particular one off trauma or a build up of difficult situations.

Understanding more about how trauma affects people and how people recover from it may be helpful to you and your wellbeing.

This course covers emotions and how we process them, and how this links to our wellbeing and to trauma. The course shows how we recognise trauma and how we can process it and recover from it.

Available in 108 languages via Google Translate.

Description

This 9 session/lesson course about parenthood has been designed for delivery in schools for teenagers. It has mainly been delivered to adolescents aged 14-15 years, but it could be delivered to younger adolescents. It is based on the Solihull Approach model, so it emphasises the importance of relationships, emotional support and the relationship with the baby. It introduces adolescents to their own brain development in order to engage them in the baby’s brain development and the key role that parents play in this. It has (hopefully) a lively mixture of interactive learning activities and information.

The Manual has detailed lesson plans and includes all the information needed for the course. It includes an optional session with a mother and baby. Teachers/facilitators need to have completed either the 2 Day Foundation Training or the Solihull Approach Whole School Training before delivering this course.

Session 1 Relationships and preconception health

Session 2 Baby brain development

Session 3 Relationships start early!

Session 4 A baby’s experience

Session 5 Your brain development

Session 6 Being a parent

Session 7 Babies are sociable and play

Session 8a Meeting a parent and baby

Session 8b Parents and babies

Session 9 Your key messages

Pre-requisites

To buy this manual you need to have completed, or be booked onto, either the 2 Day Foundation Training or the Solihull Approach Whole School Training. You will be asked for evidence (for each recipient of the product) at checkout.

Workshops available to be trained in delivering

• Workshop for Parents of Young Children

This workshop can be used as part of the transition process into nursery or Primary school. It can also be used as an introduction to the online course for parents ‘Understanding your child’.

• Workshop for Parents of Adolescents

This workshop can be used as part of the transition process into Secondary school. It can also be used as an introduction to the online course for parents ‘Understanding your child’.

• Peer Breastfeeding Supporter Train the Trainer

This workshop will allow you to train parents to be peer breastfeeding supporters. It is fully compliant with the Baby Friendly Initiative. It contributes to BFI status.

Workshop delivery

In order to deliver the Workshop for Parents workshops, you will need the appropriate manual.

• Workshop for Parents of Young Children Trainers’ Manual £48

• Workshop for Parents of Adolescents Trainers’ Manual £49

Workshop delivery takes 2 hours.

In order to deliver the Peer Breastfeeding Supporter Train the Trainer, you will need the appropriate manual.

• Peer Breastfeeding Supporter Training Trainers’ Manual £93

Workshop delivery takes 6 or 7 ninety-minute sessions.

Further training

Parenting Group Facilitator Training (1 day)

Train the Trainer (1 day for cascading the 2 Day Foundation)

Solihull Approach Advanced Training includes:

• Understanding attachment
• Understanding trauma
• Understanding brain development

What difference will it make?

Solihull Approach Whole School Training is designed to equip practitioners with an effective approach to supporting families and improving emotional health and wellbeing for children and their parents or carers. The training explains the fundamentals of brain development in accessible, relevant terms to support practitioners in a range of professions. Equipped with this knowledge and working through a series of real-life case studies prepares all school staff to engage families and young people with confidence to make a real and lasting impact.

The Solihull Approach and our network of trained practitioners are passionate about early intervention and responsive relationships supporting mental health and wellbeing. The Solihull Approach has a significant evidence base both quantitative and qualitative showing the improvements in the parent-child relationship, child prosocial behaviour, behaviour difficulties, parental anxiety and stress, and practitioner satisfaction.

Course Content

• Introduction to infant, early childhood and adolescent brain development
• Understanding behaviour as a communication
• The Solihull Approach (psychoanalytic theory): Containment, Reciprocity, Behaviour Management
• Development milestones
• Emotional wellbeing
• Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
• Parent-child relationships
• Practitioner support for parent child relationships

Delivery

The Solihull Approach Whole School Training is designed for teachers and governors to reception and support staff to support the use of the Solihull Approach in any school.

Group bookings are delivered throughout the year for individual bookings to a cohort of 10-50 delegates.

One day’s training and the shorter one-hour check-in session can be delivered as ‘live virtual’ training or face-to-face training by Solihull Approach trainers, as required.

There are fourteen days between Day One and Day Two of the training to enhance theory into practice.

Resources

Delegates will require a supporting Resource Pack (age-appropriate depending on profession) which includes a comprehensive summary of the Solihull Approach theoretical model, case studies, and a series of frameworks and guides for parents on various issues in the first five years: for example, sleeping, eating, toileting, playing, emotional and physical development. In the school years, it also covers an introduction to specific issues such as depression, phobias, and eating disorders.

Delegates will require a Supporting Information Booklet if they do not have a Resource Pack. It means that they do not need any photocopies of handouts and have information after the training to move theory into practice.

What difference will it make?

The Reflective Supervision Training is designed to consolidate practitioners learning from the 2 Day Foundation Training and applies the Solihull Approach model to supervision using case studies and activities. Helping to create a positive, healthier and more resilient workplace culture, you will develop the skills to: 

• Restore (the capacity to think) 

• Protect (relationships, and practitioners’ capacity to cope)  

• Prevent (escalation of a problem, burnout, high turnover) 

Delivery

The Reflective Supervision Training is designed for any trained practitioner who supervises or intends to supervise others within public or third sector provisions for babies, young children and school-aged children, young people and their families. 

‘Open training’ is delivered throughout the year for individual bookings to a cohort of up to 12 delegates. 

‘Closed’ training is bespoke delivered for teams of staff of up to 12 individuals within an organisation with a relevant resource pack.

Resources

Delegates will require the Reflective Supervision Supporting Information Booklet which includes a summary of key information from all the sessions, as a reminder, and reflective questions to support the processing and integration of the information. 

What difference will it make?

The Refresher Day is designed to consolidate practitioners’ learning from the 2 Day Foundation Training. Togetherness recommends best value comes from integrating this training as part of a theory-into-practice strategy that includes work discussion time and considers the Advanced Training on brain development, attachment and/or trauma. 

The Togetherness team are passionate about early intervention and responsive relationships supporting mental health and wellbeing. The Solihull Approach model at the heart of all our training and resources has a significant evidence base both quantitative and qualitative showing the improvements for: 

• the parent-child relationship 

• child prosocial behaviour 

• behaviour difficulties 

• parental anxiety and stress  

• practitioner satisfaction 

Course content

• Revisiting the Solihull Approach: Containment, Reciprocity, Behaviour Management 

• Refresher and updates on baby brain development 

Delivery

‘Open training’ is delivered throughout the year for individual bookings to a cohort of up to 12 delegates. 

‘Closed’ training is bespoke delivered for teams of staff of up to 12 individuals within an organisation with a relevant resource pack. 

Resources

Delegates will require a supporting Resource Pack to have completed the 2 Day Foundation Training originally and will be able to use the same Resource Pack as part of their Refresher Day training. The Resource Packs include a comprehensive summary of the Solihull Approach theoretical model, case studies, and a series of frameworks and guides for parents on various issues. 

Course content

• Deeper understanding of the Solihull Approach: Containment, Reciprocity, Behaviour Management 

• Management and the parallel process in practice 

• Understanding types of trauma and recovery 

Delivery

The Management 1 Day Advanced Training is designed for any Togetherness trained practitioner managing people within public or third sector provisions for babies, young children and school-aged children, young people and their families. 

‘Open training’ is delivered throughout the year for individual bookings to a cohort of up to 12 delegates. 

‘Closed’ training is bespoke delivered for teams of staff of up to 12 individuals within an organisation with a relevant resource pack.

Resources

Delegates will require the Solihull Approach to Management Supporting Information Booklet which includes a summary of key information from all the sessions, as a reminder, and reflective questions to support the processing and integration of the information. 

Course content

• Introduction to trauma and brain development 

• Introduction to trauma and attachment 

• Understanding epigenetics and trauma 

• Recap on the Solihull Approach: Containment, Reciprocity, Behaviour Management 

Delivery

The Understanding Trauma Advanced Training is designed for any practitioner working with babies, young children and school-aged children, young people and their families. 

‘Open training’ is delivered throughout the year for individual bookings to a cohort of 40 delegates. 

‘Closed’ training is bespoke delivered for teams of staff of between 40 individuals within an organisation with a relevant resource pack. 

Resources

Delegates will require the Understanding Trauma Supporting Information Booklet which includes a summary of key information from all the sessions, as a reminder, and reflective questions to support the processing and integration of the information. 

Course content

• Introduction to the biological basis of attachment 

• Introduction to secure base, safe haven and strange situation 

• Understanding the categories of attachment 

• Understanding attachment and impact on relationships 

• Understanding epigenetics and attachment 

• Developments in Attachment Theory 

• Recap on the Solihull Approach: Containment, Reciprocity, Behaviour Management 

Delivery

The Understanding Attachment Advanced Training is designed for any practitioner working with babies, young children and school-aged children, young people and their families. 

‘Open training’ is delivered throughout the year for individual bookings to a cohort of 40 delegates. 

‘Closed’ training is bespoke delivered for teams of staff of between 40 individuals within an organisation with a relevant resource pack. 

A short online CPD course is also available. 

Resources

Delegates will require the Understanding Attachment Supporting Information Booklet which includes a summary of key information from all the sessions, as a reminder, and reflective questions to support the processing and integration of the information. 

Course content

• Introduction to antenatal and adolescent brain development 

• Behaviour and communication 

• Mirror neurons 

• Brain development and the Solihull Approach model: Containment, Reciprocity, Behaviour Management 

Delivery

The Understanding Brain Development Advanced Training is designed for any practitioner working with babies, young children and school-aged children, young people and their families. 

‘Open training’ is delivered throughout the year for individual bookings to a cohort of 40 delegates. 

‘Closed’ training is bespoke delivered for teams of staff of between 40 individuals within an organisation with a relevant resource pack. 

A short online CPD course is also available.

Resources

Delegates will require the Understanding Brain Development Supporting Information Booklet which includes a summary of key information from all the sessions, as a reminder, and reflective questions to support the processing and integration of the information.